Easy to use & operate

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Best in class print quality

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Unparalleled productivity

_Benefits

The Shop System™ introduces high quality binder jetting to an entirely new market of machine shops. Shops can now cost effectively 3D print end use metal parts with unparalleled speed and productivity.

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Easy to use & operate

Designed with the modern machine shop in mind, the Shop System™ is built to fit seamlessly into your workflow. Produce parts with superior surface finish and resolution versus laser-based 3D printing systems at a fraction of the cost.*

Affordable turnkey solution

The Shop System™ contains all the equipment your machine shop needs to begin binder jetting — from print through sintering. And with a range of build volume configurations (4L, 8L, 12L, and 16L), the Shop System™ is designed to scale to your shop’s throughput.

Simplified post-processing

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Parts on the Shop System™ print fully supported in their powder bed, and feature hand-removable sintering setters. Avoid hours of labor machining off support structures typical to laser-based 3D printing systems and instead achieve customer-ready, near-net-shape parts right out of the furnace.

Optimized powders & parameters

Get started quickly with a turnkey, end-to-end 3D printing solution. The Shop System™ features Desktop Metal-engineered powders and processing parameters, optimized to deliver exceptional part quality and ensure part-to-part repeatability.

Unparalleled Productivity

10x faster

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With a high-speed, single-pass print engine, the Shop System™ produces high-quality metal parts up to 10x faster than laser powder bed fusion—meaning you can 3D print up to 70kg of metal parts per day.

Print a build per shift

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Average cycle times of 6-12 hours enable a new build every shift.** With the ability to 3D print tens to hundreds of near-net shape parts each day, you can reserve machinist hours for refining critical features.

Flexible batch jobs

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The Shop System™ is a tooling-free manufacturing process. Change over to a new job at the press of a button and process multiple complex jobs without the need for custom setups.

Batch production

Mid-volume production

Produce hundreds of near-net-shape parts every day with dramatically reduced labor costs and expanded geometric flexibility.

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How it works

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The Shop System™ is an end-to-end, single-pass binder jetting solution delivering high-resolution 3D printed parts at a fraction of the time and cost.

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Print

For each layer, the printer spreads metal powder across the build bed, and precisely jets a binding agent to bond loose powder and define part geometry. Layer by layer, metal powder and binder is deposited until the entire build volume is packed with bound parts and surrounding loose powder.

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Depowder

Once an entire build is complete, the build box is removed and placed in a powder station for bulk and fine depowdering—with the help of a hand-held air pick. Loose powder is removed from the parts and recovered via a built-in powder recycling system with powder sieving.

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Sinter

Depowdered parts are placed onto trays in a shop-safe, high-throughput furnace for batch sintering. With an external gas hookup and temperatures reaching 1400ºC, the Shop System™ furnace is able to deliver quality and reliable sintering in a shop-friendly format.

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An end-to-end solution.

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Printer

The Shop System™ printer features the highest resolution printhead on the market with over 70,000 nozzles jetting 1pL droplets at nearly 10 kHZ to achieve high resolution, 3D printed parts at a fraction of the cost and speed of laser-based systems.

Printer

Printer

The Shop System™ printer features the highest resolution printhead on the market with over 70,000 nozzles jetting 1pL droplets at nearly 10 kHZ to achieve high resolution, 3D printed parts at a fraction of the cost and speed of laser-based systems.

Depowdering Station

With easy access portholes, a hand-held air pick, built-in powder sieving and recycling, and a vacuum port for easy powder maintenance, the powder station provides closed-loop powder management and recycling.

Depowdering Station

Depowdering Station

With easy access portholes, a hand-held air pick, built-in powder sieving and recycling, and a vacuum port for easy powder maintenance, the powder station provides closed-loop powder management and recycling.

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Powder management

Built in powder recovery and sieving

Controlled metering

Sieving rate

5 kg/hr

Footprint

101.6 x 68.6 x 162.6 cm(40 x 27 x 64.0 in)

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Furnace

The Shop System™ furnace is a shop-safe high-temp sintering oven built for cost-effective high throughput of 3D printed parts. Featuring external gas hookup and adjustable shelving, the furnace easily and affordably scales to mid-volume manufacturing.

Furnace

Furnace

The Shop System™ furnace is a shop-safe high-temp sintering oven built for cost-effective high throughput of 3D printed parts. Featuring external gas hookup and adjustable shelving, the furnace easily and affordably scales to mid-volume manufacturing.

Down Hole Tool Slip

This part provides a frictional hold between a frac plug and a pre-existing pipe during oil extraction.

Down Hole Tool Slip

Size (mm)57 x 23 x 82

Cost per part ($)56.31

Parts per build26

Weekly throughput205

This part is a consumable and is lost after pumping is complete, so keeping the price and lead time low are essential. The Shop System allows this part to be manufactured with an accelerated lead time and at lower cost than traditional manufacturing. The Shop system also allows the part design to be changed for different pumping scenarios.

Killacycle Coupling

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This part is a taper lock coupling designed for a high-end, custom motorcycle.

Killacycle Coupling

Size (mm)70 x 70 x 32

Cost per part ($)86.94

Parts per build15

Weekly throughput137

The Killacycle is an electrically-powered motorcycle built for drag racing. Using the Shop System, engineers were able to design for function rather than for the manufacturing method, allowing them to use a tapered design that would be difficult to manufacture via traditional methods.

The Shop system allowed for a greatly accelerated manufacturing lead time, allowing the team to rapidly iterate on the part.

Gear Shift Knob

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An example of mass customization, this textured gear shift knob can be printed to customer specifications.

Gear Shift Knob

Size (mm)70 x 70 x 32

Cost per part ($)86.94

Parts per build15

Weekly throughput137

On demand manufacturing of custom knobs is enabled with the Shop System - expanding design flexibility and avoiding warehousing costs. The short manufacturing lead times allows for many custom knobs to be produced with a variety of different designs.

Printing on the Shop System also allows for a dramatic reduction in cost compared to traditional manufacturing methods.

Bulb Nozzle

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This part is a custom nozzle for use in chemical processing.

Bulb Nozzle

Size (mm)38 x 38 x 46

Cost per part ($)29.12

Parts per build27

Weekly throughput319

Traditional manufacturing of this part would require casting followed by extensive secondary machining on a 5 axis CNC. Because only a few hundred of this nozzle needed to be manufactured, it was a great fit for the Shop System.

By printing, the entire order of nozzles could be produced on the Shop System in less than a week with only one secondary thread-tapping operation required.

Clutch Plate

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This clutch plate connects an electric motor to the crankshaft to start a motorcycle.

Clutch Plate

Size (mm)80 x 80 x 15

Cost per part ($)49.57

Parts per build29

Weekly throughput200

Machining this clutch plate would require multiple setups and multiple machining operations. By printing the part, only critical dimensions need to be machined, saving machinist labor, CNC machine time and reducing part cost.

Sensor Holder

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This part is used to hold multiple sensors while measurements are taken in a running machine.

Sensor Holder

Size (mm)37 x 23 x 18

Cost per part ($)7.80

Parts per build186

Weekly throughput1,490

The intricate geometry of this sensor holder make the part an ideal candidate for the Shop system. The part was printed with an extreme reduction in both manufacturing lead time and part cost.

Printing on the Shop System also allows for manufacturing flexibility - when the design needs to be modified to incorporate different sensors, engineers can simply send a revised file to the printer.

Bearing Housing

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This housing is used to hold pressed-fit bearings in place in a machine.

Bearing Housing

Size (mm)73 x 65 x 30

Cost per part ($)72.89

Parts per build24

Weekly throughput192

This part needed to be produced quickly out of steel. Using the Shop System, the required parts were printed in just 4 days and were ready for assembly in less than a week, requiring almost no operator labor.

Printing on the Shop System also dramatically reduced manufacturing lead time compared to traditional manufacturing methods.

Diesel Fuel Swirler

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This swirler is used to push the diesel fuel mix into the burner.

Diesel Fuel Swirler

Size (mm)30 x 30 x 10

Cost per part ($)8.22

Parts per build299

Weekly throughput1,496

Swirlers are an essential component of burners; small changes to the geometry can have drastic effects on burner performance, fuel efficiency, power output, etc.

Printing on the Shop System allowed for the part to be produced with no tooling, allowing for the printed geometry to be changed easily to adapt for different burners and fuel mixes. Printing also significantly shortened the manufacturing lead time and lowered the part cost.

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Applications by Industry

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Explore applications for 3D printing across a range of industries.

Automotive

For automotive manufacturers, 3D printing opens new opportunities for rapid prototyping, creating parts with more complexity than ever before, identifying opportunities for assembly consolidation and exploring new business models centered around on-demand production.

Consumer Goods

Manufacturers of consumer goods can use 3D printing for rapid prototyping and testing of new designs for both functionality and market feedback, and as a flexible manufacturing line for low-volume and regionally-targeted production that allows greater design freedom for product customization.

Education

By investing in 3D printing, educational institutions provide students the tools to bring their work to life, help them build important career skills and enable them to act as additive manufacturing champions when they enter the workforce.

Machine Design

Using 3D printing, machine designers can print and test multiple part variations, create geometry that cannot be machined, consolidate large assemblies into fewer parts and reduce warehousing costs by printing custom parts on demand.

Manufacturing Tooling

For companies that produce manufacturing tooling, 3D printing can be an invaluable resource, allowing them to quickly and inexpensively produce complex, custom tooling and easily replace tools when needed, reducing downtime on manufacturing lines.